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Show aarlwi Mm & W? xJL-3JQ- f& remrsv 'JL 3l. i. ? L"' JYIPv V Heber Wasatch County, Utah, Monday; April VOL. II 25 th 1892 No. 34. THEHEBER HERALD. We had fought from tree to tree, irom thicket to thicket, from' glade to back the gray lines here Editor and Manager. glade, pushing t A Hatch Jr, baffled and com pel fed to give ground at Entered at . Heber , Postoffue , as see ' other points. ' Lee's lines barred the ' end class mail mailer way. Never a man in his whole army SUBSCRIPTION PRICES whos musket barrel was not hot that One Year. ....$1.00 day. Never a mail who did not feel Six Morths .$0.50 that he was lighting for the life of the Three Months ; . $0. 2 5 Confederacy. . How the forest shook and trembled 3 as the great guns sent their deadly mis"WHO COMES HERE. sels crashing through the foilage ! I low the thickets blazed up in flames, the A STORY OF THE CIVAL severed limbs .crashed down, the sunny WAR. glades turned dark as night with powder moke settling over them! The HaltrWhccomes here?" bushes. the dead outnumbered . Friends with the countersign. The wounded cried and wailed and criAdvance one and and give me the ed as I never heard them before or countersign?" after. There was something so somIt was the relief going the rounds to ber so grew some sc unearthly in change the pickets, and I was dropped fighting a foe unseen in the semidarkout at post No. 7. We had fought ness that the shouting and cursing -- Le all day long- - oiuliestrangest battle- - ally-- . herd in the Jines gave peace to . field of the whole war in the Wilder- silence and pale faces. ness. From right to left flank. From Darkness had come at last and the in front to rear, we were hemmed by roar of battle had died away to a low forest and thicket. There were swamps growl. Giant had failed to drive Lee. in which lizards and serpents lurked, We knew that from flank. If he could will "thickets in which the coy whippor not force a passage through those gra built is nest, dense spots of forest which lines he' could flank them. Before the Seemed never to have Echoed the-ris u n w e n 1 do w n we k n r w that he won kl of the woodmans ax. -- . . . .. . , . : ng v |